Decide On His Rabbit Hutch Before You Buy Your First Rabbit

There’s so many reasons why rabbits make a wonderful pet. You can housetrain rabbits, they don’t eat too much and they make wonderful companions for children as well as adults. Learning about keeping rabbits can be quite involved, but one of the earliest decisions you will need to make is whether you will keep your rabbits indoors or in an outdoors rabbit hutch.

It’s quite true that our little furry friends can be successfully kept indoors or outdoors. However there are different considerations for each. A rabbit is generally kept in a hutch, and can be kept in a hutch as easily outdoors as indoors.

Before you buy your rabbit you must have decided about what housing you will use to keep him in. There are rabbit hutches sold freely on the Internet and in pet shops but the vast majority are way too small for a rabbit. A rabbit should have sufficient space to take 3 consecutive hops and to stand up in his hutch, therefore it should be a minimum of 18 inches high and 6 feet long. It saddens me to see beautiful rabbits cooped up in tiny rabbit cages.

If you have an outdoors rabbit you must give him a rabbit cage that gives him total protection from predators. Predators such as dogs or foxes are extremely wily and will exploit any weaknesses in a cage to get at your little furry friend. As well as protection from predators it must have a weatherproof sleeping area as well as an exercise area that is covered in so he can play during the day.

And if you do have your rabbit in a small rabbit hutch now you can overcome this problem by building him a dedicated rabbit run around the hutch so you can allow them out during the day to run around in the run provided this is also protected from predators.

And if your rabbit is to be an indoors pet it is not important to have a roof on the hutch, and a roof inhibits cleaning, so unless you have a pet cats in the house a roof is not important. But he will still need his own private sleeping area.

Don’t place is a rabbit cage near glass areas which can become extremely hot during the summer in the sun, and cold during winter. Also avoid putting his cage anywhere near a gas appliance as these can leak toxic fumes.

If you wish you can dedicate a whole room of the house to your rabbit, though you must inspect the room thoroughly checking for any holes that he can disappear into.

There is no doubt that rabbits make a fine pet, but makes decisions well before you buy your rabbit, and in particular organise his housing beforehand.